Tombstone
Tombstone
What will your Tombstone say?
What will your tombstone say? Beyond the obvious...of when you were born and when we all at some point - leave this earth.
There's a tombstone
There's a Memorial
There's a place that symbolizes that we walked this earth.
Many times there's a statement of honor, a proverb, a Bible verse or a quote that that person attempted to live their life by. And I think that when we look at the dash - essentially the time that we're here on earth - the conversation gets pretty serious.
I think we may not often chew on that, so to speak.
We may not dwell on that because that's not always an easy topic.
I want to encourage you today to think about what you want your life to count...your “mark”. How are you going to leave your “mark” on this earth?
You might be really young, you might be a teenager, you might be in your 20s or 30s, or you may be in a season of life where you don't know how many days you have left.
If you woke up today and you're thankful for another day….if you don't know what tomorrow holds...we can still take hope.
None of us are guaranteed tomorrow.
So today reflect and think about what you want your tombstone to say.
In one or two sentences - the theme of our life is summarized. I hope as you and I live our lives, that we would be the kind of people that would love others, encourage others, help our neighbor along the way, make this world a better place, be a hope carrier to a world and a generation that so desperately needs it.
So think about that.
What you want your tombstone to say? Write it down. And once you say, “That's what I want my life to be and how I want it to count!” Then take action, and start to live that out day by day, week by week, month by month. And by the grace of God, hopefully we all have many, many years left on this earth...but we know that we have today. So let's live life today (in such a way) that whatever is written on our tombstone - we, and future generations - our family, those that bear our name could say “Yes, they lived a life of impact.”
“They lived a life of significance…” I think when we do that, we're living life to the fullest.